This gentleman and Mr Thwackum scarce ever met without a disputation; for their tenets were indeed diametrically opposite to each other.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

On this the king wrapped himself up in a gray-skin, and went back to his boat; but before they rowed away from the ship, every man in his suite bought such another skin as the king wore for himself.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But the master's sword drove its point into the hard soil, and snapped clean across, as though Chance refused him any longer as her Knight, and the splintered end missed his face by an inch or so.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision Although I had less than a minute for reflection, I felt, by a kind of instinct, that I must conceal my experiences from my Wife.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I have noticed also that she eats much less, a fact which troubles her father so much that he is anxious to get her home.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Polygamy persists, involving its own type of morals and sentiment, and savage tribes show even more startling conventions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

As he approached, the thunders, for a moment silent, allowed him to hear the dreadful shrieks of a woman mingling with the stifled, exultant mockery of a laugh, continued in one almost unbroken sound;—he was startled: but, roused by the thunder which again rolled over his head, he, with a sudden effort, forced open the door of the hut.
— from The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori

Nor can Plato in the Gorgias be deemed purely self-regarding, considering that Socrates expressly mentions the duty of imparting the truth when discovered to others.
— from Gorgias by Plato

He who strikes fire from the shield, Einar, may some day make us yield, Unless our axe-edge quickly ends, With sudden kiss, what he intends.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

If the verb in the sentence expresses motion toward the place indicated by kie , the ending -n is added, forming kien , whither ( where ): Kie li estis kaj kien oni forpelis lin?
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

A trace of the same expression may occasionally be detected even with adult Europeans.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

They certainly did not know how to say excuse me I do not know who you are.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

I desire to recur to the statements elsewhere made concerning the Government's receipts and expenditures for the purpose of venturing upon some suggestions touching our present tariff law and its operation.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

Dumont ( Souvenirs , p. 97) calls this ‘une idée américaine;’ and see to the same effect, Mém.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

But including the families of those so employed, more than 2,000,000 persons were maintained by the relief-works, and there were others behind including the most helpless, for whom no work could be found.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

I had no reasonable prospect of any property hereafter to descend to me, that should exonerate me from the consequences of further prodigality.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

The sport exhilarated me, combining, as it did, an exciting physical with a wholesome moral exercise.
— from Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant